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(1) My mother likes to sit with her legs crossed on the sofa, glasses balanced on her nose, while she scrolls through her iPhone

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问题     (1) My mother likes to sit with her legs crossed on the sofa, glasses balanced on her nose, while she scrolls through her iPhone. I don’t know whether she is commenting on a friend’s family photo album, crushing candy or liking a meme with the caption: "Tonight’s forecast: 99％ chance of wine", but I do know that this is not the first time I catch her like this. My father opts for the "I’ll be with you shortly" line, which he delivers with a very serious look on his face as he aggressively taps away on his phone. I have learned by now that this is my cue to leave him alone for the next 10 minutes. As much as they don’t like admitting it, both of my parents are just as addicted to their phones as I am.
    (2) Growing up, we are constantly reminded that young people are the demographic most affected by technology. We are the "antisocial social club", those who prefer to text our friends in the same room rather than having to make eye contact with them. We are the "digital natives", ruining the English language because we favour using heart-eye emojis to tell someone we fancy them, instead of spelling it out. We are "generation mute", unable to bear phone calls because apparently the awkwardness of calling someone up is just too real. Even though never-ending studies warn us that we are slowly turning into tech-zombies, we should at least consider that it’s not only us young ones any more.
    (3) There’s the rise of the Instagram mums, who like to post an abundance of cute baby pictures, showcasing their seemingly put-together lifestyles and sharing their many mom feelings along the way. Or the surge of over-55-year-olds who are beginning to occupy and curate Facebook. They are the so-called "Facebook mum generation", a growing group of parents that like to overshare and, in the process, are slowly pushing out young people who can’t bear to see another one of mum’s embarrassing gin-and-tonic-on-a-holiday selfies. While many millennials are slowly leaving Facebook because our timeline seems to clog up with fake news, dog videos and repetitive memes these days, our parents might see the platform as a way of keeping up with the social lives of their old schoolmates. They’re a little late to the party, but are still arriving in their droves, with Facebook expecting its largest growth of new members joining the platform in the UK to be among the over-55s users this year.
    (4) And while all of this might be fine, and even a little humorous, new research suggests that parents’ technology addiction is negatively affecting their children’s behaviour. According to the study, 40％ of mothers and 32％ of fathers have admitted to having some sort of phone addiction. This has led to a significant fall in verbal interactions within families and even a decline in mothers encouraging their children. It is an increasing trend that people switch their attention away from those around them to check their phones instead—one that seems to be infiltrating far beyond friendship circles and now also into family life. And by family life, I mean not only young teens and children who are glued to their phones or tablets, but also their parents, who are now joining in on the antisocial fun. What are the consequences if we don’t deal with this? And why don’t we recognise it in the first place, when all the signs are there?
    (5) Whether you want to escape your pestering children for a bit, or want to stay up late flicking through Twitter, know that wanting to do all of this is normal. We—your children—know how addictive it can be and how difficult it is to switch off. But before calling us out and telling us to "put our phones away at the table" or even worse, pulling up statistics of how damaging social media can be for us, maybe lead by example and consider how much time you spend on the phone as well as how this is impacting your children and your relationship with them. Maybe in this way we can work on our addiction together. (本文选自 The Guardian)
In Para. 2, the phrase "generation mute" means________.
选项 A、people who like making phone calls
B、people who suffer from awkwardness
C、people who prefer messaging to talking
D、people who are familiar with technology
答案C
解析 语义题。由题干定位到原文第二段。本段第二至四句提到，我们是“反社交俱乐部”的成员，即便跟朋友身处同一个屋檐下，我们宁愿互相发短信，也不愿意跟他们进行眼神交流。我们是“数码世界的土著”，破坏了英语语言，因为我们喜欢用心形眼睛的表情符号告诉某人我们喜欢他们，而不是把它拼出来。我们是“generation mute”，不能容忍打电话，因为很显然，给人打电话的尴尬实在太过真实了。由此可知，“反社交俱乐部”“数码世界的土著”“generation mute”都是过度沉迷网络科技设备，缺乏日常情感交流的群体。故generation mute指的是“宁愿发消息，也不愿打电话跟人说话的人”，本题正确答案为C。A “喜欢打电话的人”、B“遭遇尴尬的人”和D“熟悉科技的人”与文义不符，故可以排除。
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